Re: Meandering Jerri Type Post

"Jette" wrote:
> Maybe the long ago olives weren't as large as eggs, but long ago eggs
were 
> as small as olives? Over the centuries we've bred our livestock to
produce 
> bigger and better everything.
>
> BTW, different olives from different places are different sizes.  I love

> the big green olives from the South of France, which are about an inch
and 
> a half long, but hubby prefers the smaller black Greek ones, which are 
> just about an inch long.

I think it's an exercise in futility to try and determine what was larger 
and/or smaller over the millennia. Go back enough years and people were 
larger, then we got smaller and now we're getting bigger again. I don't
have 
to look very far back to see it within my own family, each successive 
generation is taller than the last. It probably has a lot to do with the 
quality and availability of food.

I'm pretty sure that the olives under discussion were grown in the middle 
east and undoubtedly there were several varieties and sizes from different

areas of the region.

Jerri was right, all ath discussions end with food.

Annie